Argumentative Essay On World War 2

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“United in this determination and with unshakable fain in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God’s help, go forward to our greatest victory,” said General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1944. Eisenhower referenced America in this quote, and how they came together from children and women’s support at home, to the men fighting the war overseas. America showed loyalty to their country throughout World War 2 from the home front to the battlefield, gaining the prestigious effects on America by winning the devastating war. Although the frontline of the battle is more well-known, the home front during World War 2 was what kept the men at was going strong. It all started on the home front, leading the United States into World War 2 when Japan attacked the Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. It was a sunny Sunday morning on the quiet twenty-two acre naval base when the unsuspected Japanese navy and air force targeted United States battleships, aircraft carriers, and the ninety-two vessels on base. The surprise attack took place at 7:55 a.m. when three hundred sixty Japanese war planes and thirty-three naval ships destroyed one hundred seventy American aircrafts, eighteen From 1941, when the United States joined the war, to 1945 when they finished the war, American citizens stayed loyal and pushed through the hardship of WW2 gaining the title of “victor”. With this victory the United States of America suffered losses in deaths and suffering that will always be remembered throughout society. The men, women, and children that changed the United States forever during World War 2 will now and forever have a special place in the heart of America. And be remembered as the “greatest

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